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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers use a variety of language features to control these experiences: t
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An examination of the scientific evidence for the mechanisms which underlie the effect a writer's language has on the reader.
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Stories can inspire love, anger, fear and nostalgia – but what is going on in our brains when this happens? And how do our minds conjure up worlds and charact
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Taking up the age-old question of what our ability to tell stories reveals about language and the mind, this truly interdisciplinary project should be of intere
A New Theory of Mind
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This book presents a unique and intuitively compelling way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that t